Nayef Mohamed Ghasem is associated with the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, UAE University since August 2005. He obtained his doctorate in the field of dynamic modeling and simulation of industrial fluidized bed reactor for polyethylene production in 1998 from the University of Salford, Manchester, UK.

His research interests are in modeling and simulation, polymer reaction engineering, polyamide polymerization, nonlinear control techniques for polymer and petrochemical industries, polymeric hollow fiber membrane fabrication and separation of gas impurities using gas-liquid hollow fiber membrane contactor.